Google Kubernetes Engine Jobs

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Google Kubernetes Engine skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 704 873 644
Rank change year-on-year +169 -229 +135
Permanent jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine 25 38 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.035% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.11% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 20 19 120
10th Percentile £66,125 £65,000 -
25th Percentile £72,899 £71,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £82,751 £90,000 £91,563
90th Percentile £82,975 £99,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £78,810 £78,750 £59,526
% change year-on-year +0.08% +32.30% -8.42%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Google Kubernetes Engine falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,938 35,990 38,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.53% 33.35% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 10,637 26,889 26,512
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,685 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.58% -7.85% +4.76%

Google Kubernetes Engine
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Google Kubernetes Engine as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine.

Salary trend for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Google Kubernetes Engine in the UK

Google Kubernetes Engine
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Google Kubernetes Engine within the UK over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +167 22 £78,810 -1.49% 177
Work from Home +123 18 £78,810 +5.08% 79
UK excluding London +176 16 £78,810 +0.08% 62
London +94 8 £76,905 -5.77% 128
North of England +43 8 £78,810 -1.49% 19
Yorkshire +56 5 £74,870 - 8
South East +71 4 £65,000 -13.33% 22
North West +13 3 £78,810 -7.28% 11
South West - 2 £78,810 - 7
Scotland - 2 £78,810 - 7

Google Kubernetes Engine
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
2 2 (8.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) GCP
2 11 (44.00%) Apigee
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) Azure
5 2 (8.00%) Anthos
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Run
5 2 (8.00%) Datadog
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) AWS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) CloudAMQP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) DNS
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (32.00%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
5 2 (8.00%) Power BI
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) Git
1 14 (56.00%) Jenkins
1 14 (56.00%) SonarQube
1 14 (56.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 11 (44.00%) JUnit
2 11 (44.00%) Maven
3 3 (12.00%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Selenium
General
1 15 (60.00%) Banking
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Games
3 2 (8.00%) iGaming
3 2 (8.00%) Publishing
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Senior
2 11 (44.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 11 (44.00%) Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Lead Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Lead Web Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Web Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Development Manager
7 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (48.00%) Spring
2 11 (44.00%) Hibernate
2 11 (44.00%) RESTful
2 11 (44.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.00%) Django
3 3 (12.00%) FastAPI
3 3 (12.00%) Flask
3 3 (12.00%) Playwright
3 3 (12.00%) React
4 2 (8.00%) CSS
4 2 (8.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.00%) HTML
4 2 (8.00%) Next.js
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 2 (8.00%) Svelte
5 1 (4.00%) Micronaut
5 1 (4.00%) Quarkus
5 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.00%) Ratpack
5 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile Games
2 2 (8.00%) Online Games
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Sports Betting
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
1 18 (72.00%) Microservices
2 16 (64.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (64.00%) Software Engineering
3 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (56.00%) Event-Driven
3 14 (56.00%) Test Automation
4 12 (48.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 11 (44.00%) OO
5 11 (44.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 11 (44.00%) TDD
6 4 (16.00%) E-Commerce
6 4 (16.00%) GitOps
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Logistics
7 3 (12.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (8.00%) API Integration
8 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
8 2 (8.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 15 (60.00%) Java
2 15 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 15 (60.00%) Python
3 12 (48.00%) Go
4 3 (12.00%) Groovy
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) OCP
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 19 (76.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (92.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (76.00%) Terraform
3 15 (60.00%) Istio
4 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Grafana
4 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (12.00%) Argo
5 3 (12.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (12.00%) IBM
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.00%) VMware